Once upon a time you had a certain kind of PR machinery taking place whenever the next celebrity/tastemaker backed club, opened. The photo ops, the red carpet, little mentions on Page Six or on E channel, it was all so, tame, so civil. But that's changing! Introducing Club Plum's opening month, and something the Crazy Pinoys call,,,,,Thug Marketing.
Yes, Thug Marketing. Why be just another tired clothing designer with a watered down drink in your hand all night, when you can start a brawl with an equally sleepy rock star?! Why just an MC sucking up overpriced champagne and sitting there, when you can be harassing models and causing your whole night to end up as a headline, especially if you haven't had a record in a minute! Why, indeed. For once, things are trickling up, not down. From the gutter to the B list, we've finally arrived! It's the new Ghetto Fabulous. We'll bring a helmut and take a back table, thanks.
The Hyphy movement took a terrible turn in the 206 last week, with a woman falling out of her car on the West Seattle Bridge. Apparently it takes a little practice to drive while standing!
In promotions news, look for our street footwork on behalf of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour DVD, and the 2007 lineup for EA Sports is on its way.
One of my secret street connects had this to say about the recent old skool New Jack Swing Tour coming through Seattle, and this is an exact quote:
"Just the New Jack Swing Tour dissin Seattle with No Teddy Riley, no Raphael (the lead singer) of Toni Tony Tone. All Blackstreet missing except for the Buff dude, who was not an original member. Same shit they did in the 80’s and early 90’s. How they messed up the game for everybody."
BUZZ for June: Jacob The Jeweler arrest, Ashanti pregnancy, Hells Kitchen (Fox Network Mondays), Democratic Party takeover of Seattle's eastside? Mercedes Benz lawsuits, Bill Gates leaving Microsoft, http://www.mixrevloution.com/
WANKSTER FOR JUNE: Cristal. You should have counted your blessings. There was no greater endorsement of the product than by the top 5 proponents of your grape. Forget that it is too sweet anyway, Tattinger, Pol Rogers, Salon have far superior product. Jay Z and others are going to take away your Christmas bonuses this year! You don't want us? You got it!
SHOUT it out: DJ Scene, MC Lyte, Nasty Nes, the staff @ Oceanaire Seattle.
"A Fashion Is Nothing But An Induced Epidemic"
George Bernard Shaw
Gene Dexter, urban stable boy
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